Workshop speakers
Teresa Aberkane
Teresa Aberkane has been involved with monitoring air quality in Canterbury for more than 20 years. Her role at Environment Canterbury has focussed on data validation and reporting. With PM the main pollutant of concern in many Canterbury towns, PM measurement has been a priority, involving many comparisons of different methods of measuring PM.
Reporting air quality data has included assisting with the design of the air module for LAWA.org.nz, which displays air data from all New Zealand towns.
Roger Cudmore
Roger is a principal environmental consultant and past director of Golder Associates (NZ) with over 30 years of professional experience working in industrial research and environmental management associated with air and water management. He is currently Golder’s environmental services team leader and provides leadership to Golder Australasian air, integrated water management and other environmental discipline groups. Roger is one New Zealand’s leading air quality expert and has led teams for the completion of numerous air quality EIAs for the manufacturing, power, transport, mining, and waste management sectors since the inception of New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (1991).
He has been involved in the development of various Ministry for Environment’s air quality management guidelines for over 20 years, through the preparation of background technical support documentation and MfE guideline reviews.
Angie Scott
Angie is currently employed as a Senior Scientist in the Air Monitoring and Investigations team at Environment Canterbury. She has 20 years of experience in air quality and has worked previously for the state government in Australia (New South Wales EPA), industry (Norske Skog Tasman Ltd), and consultancies (Tonkin and Taylor Ltd).
Her experience ranges from hands-on stack-testing, environmental monitoring and analysis, to designing, implementing and running air quality investigations, evaluating the impact of intervention strategies on air quality and providing advice on national environmental standard reviews.
Quentin Davies
Quentin joined Gascoigne Wicks in 2000, becoming a Partner in 2006. He has developed a broad knowledge of environmental issues with active projects from Northland to Southland. He has built up expertise in aquaculture, viticulture and coastal policy and planning, where his science degree provides an additional perspective.
Aurora Grant is a Team Leader in the consents team at Southland Regional Council. She has six years’ experience in regulatory teams within the Council, and has expertise specifically relating to resource consenting, plan implementation and enforcement matters. She holds a Diploma of Environmental Management and is currently completing her thesis on collective management approaches for Aquaculture in Murihiku for her Bachelor of Environmental Management qualification. She is also studying a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and is an accredited decision maker through the MfE Making Good Decisions course.
Jennifer is the Director of U.S. Coastal Programs at the University of Rhode Island Coastal Resources Center at the Graduate School of Oceanography and Director of Extension Programs for the Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program. She is co-leader for the development and implementation of the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan (Ocean SAMP), the first formally adopted Ocean Spatial Plan in the U.S., and leads research and provides technical support to build the capacity of coastal management practitioners internationally. Jennifer has also played a leadership role in the development of plans for the siting of land-based renewable energy and a comprehensive management and marketing approach for Rhode Island’s shellfish resources. She led the national effort to develop monitoring protocols and modelling tools for improved management of offshore renewable energy and developing indicators to determine the impacts of offshore renewable energy on recreation and tourism.
Raewyn Pert
Raewyn Peart has over 20 years professional experience in environmental law and policy having worked as a resource management lawyer and policy adviser to business, government and the not-for-profit sector, and currently heads EDS’s environmental policy think-tank group. For the past decade, Raewyn’s work has focused on landscape protection, coastal development and marine management in New Zealand. She has written numerous papers, research reports and guidance material on these issues. Raewyn has published major books on coastal development, marine mammal protection, environmental change in the Hauraki Gulf marine area and fisheries management. She was a member of the collaborative Stakeholder Working Group which successfully prepared the first marine spatial plan in New Zealand for the Hauraki Gulf, and is co-author of the recent EDS report Healthy Seas: Implementing Marine Spatial Planning in New Zealand.
Raewyn was co-winner of the 2013 Resource Management Law Association Publications Award, and recipient of the 2016 Holdaway Award for leadership in and around the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. In 2019 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to environmental and conservation policy.
Mark Preece
Mark was raised on Rangihaute (Pitt Island) and now lives in Blenheim. He has a Masters in Marine Science from Otago University, and has spent the past 20 years following his passion for the aquaculture industry, with the past 15 years in managerial positions. He is currently part of New Zealand King Salmon’s aquaculture management team, growing premium king salmon in the Marlborough Sounds for markets throughout the world.